Two campuses within the University of Wisconsin System announced Tuesday they are offering employees a voluntary retirement buyout with a one-time payout equal to 50% of an employee's annual base salary.

The buyouts at UW-Oshkosh and UW-Green Bay offer the same payout, but the eligibility requirements are different. At UW-Green Bay, the offer is being extended to all employees 55 and older who have at least five years of service. At UW-Oshkosh, employees must be at least 60 and have 25 years of service to the state to be eligible.

Tuesday's announcements bring to four the total number of campuses seeking to reduce their workforce through voluntary buyouts in the face of state budget cuts. UW-Eau Claire was the first campus to make the offer, followed last week by UW-Superior.(293)

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Following social media is an amazing way to find out how many bloggers can't document their tales. Recently a campaign manager was exposed for tweeking false information in the recent storm.

The mainstream media at times does to heavily filter the truth and feed the Breitbart thinking.

Our small group of citizens that at one time of another either took journalism classes or worked in the media started a social effort we called Q. We started off with simple blog posts to ask is the article true? In one of the Breitbart re-posts just the Q one line question to ask if the article was true got over 4K thumbs down and only about 10 thumbs up.

People that support free speech and want to leak evidence were amazingly un-supportive of the rights of others to use their free speech. The so called evidence being leaked we went to look up the actual court case to compare the documents. They were not the same.

One of our members of Q was floored to find excerpts from their legal case whipped into a tall tale and depicted as being from another person. The leaked records were from their case.

Why our group choose the letter Q for its name is very important. It represents the old school media training to complete the circle - Investigate, Confirm and Ask Questions.

In the wake of Breitbart I think its incredibly responsible of the JS to provide links for people to read charges and view documents that still protect crime victims and uphold public integrity.

I also feel the change in the feel of our media to be upfront when a mistake was made is very positive. Responsible journalists always will find their audience. Hypsters like Breitbart are a Warhol moment.

And the mainstream media never reports false stories? Paleeez. The Bush National Guard story under Dan Rather? Not only was it not true, buit the evidence was fake papers. How many mainstream journalists have been fired for making up stories? And how long did the mainstream media refuse to cover the Senator Edwards affir and child story? Drudge broke that story and teh media refused to cover it until they absolutely had to.